Julia Child honoured in Google doodle

Julia Child, the doyenne of US television cookery shows and a larger-than-life food writer and television personality who demystified French cuisine for the American public, has been celebrated in a Google doodle marking her birthday. The cook, who died in 2004, was herself re-introduced to a new generation of fans as a result of her portrayal by Meryl Streep in a 2009 film, Julie & Julia, which centred on the the culinary journey of a mildly bored diplomat's wife who enrolls in the Cordon Bleu cookery school in post-war Paris. It simultaneously retells the story of a New York blogger's bid to cook all 524 recipes from Child's seminal cookbook during a single year Child's book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, was published in 1961 and gave rise in turn to a television series, The French Chef.  more